Paris Hilton Breaks Silence on Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Tried to Recruit Her for Jeffrey Epstein

Paris Hilton has addressed explo­sive alle­ga­tions that Ghis­laine Maxwell once con­sid­ered her a poten­tial recruit for Jef­frey Epstein, break­ing her silence on claims that have fol­lowed her for years. The heiress and entre­pre­neur respond­ed in a new inter­view with The Sun­day Times, direct­ly acknowl­edg­ing the sto­ry that first sur­faced in Lifetime’s 2020 doc­u­men­tary Sur­viv­ing Jef­frey Epstein.

The alle­ga­tion came from British jour­nal­ist Christo­pher Mason, a for­mer acquain­tance of Maxwell’s, who recount­ed an inci­dent from around the year 2000. In the doc­u­men­tary, Mason said that Maxwell had spot­ted Hilton at a New York par­ty when the future media star was just 19, alleged­ly telling a friend of his, “Oh my God, who’s that? She’d be per­fect for Jef­frey.” Mason added that Maxwell appeared eager to be intro­duced to her.

Hilton, now 44, says she has no mem­o­ry of any such meet­ing.
Speak­ing to The Sun­day Times Mag­a­zine, the socialite respond­ed blunt­ly:
“I don’t even remem­ber ever meet­ing her.”

Hilton also sug­gest­ed that her name is being used to gen­er­ate atten­tion.
In an inter­view ref­er­enced by Peo­ple mag­a­zine, she added:
“I’m such a good click­bait name.”

Despite resur­faced pho­tographs from 2000 — includ­ing images from the Anand Jon Fash­ion Show in New York in which Hilton is seen stand­ing near Don­ald Trump and Ghis­laine Maxwell — Hilton main­tains she has no rec­ol­lec­tion of any direct inter­ac­tion.

The claims have gained renewed atten­tion as more doc­u­ments tied to Epstein’s net­work con­tin­ue to emerge and pub­lic curios­i­ty sur­round­ing the con­vict­ed sex offender’s social cir­cle remains high. Maxwell is cur­rent­ly serv­ing a 20-year sen­tence after being con­vict­ed in 2021 on sex-traf­fick­ing and con­spir­a­cy charges.

Hilton, who has been vocal in recent years about her own expe­ri­ences with abuse at youth facil­i­ties, has not posi­tioned her­self as a vic­tim in this con­text. Instead, her response under­scores a desire to dis­tance her­self from the Epstein nar­ra­tive entire­ly.

She did not issue a cat­e­gor­i­cal denial of the event described by Mason — only that she does not remem­ber meet­ing Maxwell and rejects the idea that she was ever involved with Epstein’s cir­cle.

Cov­er­age by Enter­tain­ment Week­ly and The Dai­ly Beast notes that Hilton’s reac­tion marks the first time she has spo­ken pub­licly about the alle­ga­tion since it appeared in the 2020 Life­time docuseries.

As more Epstein-relat­ed fil­ings are unsealed and new names con­tin­ue to sur­face, Hilton’s brief but point­ed response high­lights a ten­sion famil­iar to many pub­lic fig­ures whose past social set­tings inter­sect­ed with pow­er­ful indi­vid­u­als now revealed to have lived dou­ble lives. For Hilton, the sto­ry appears to be one she wants firm­ly left in the past — and one she insists has been exag­ger­at­ed because of her glob­al name recog­ni­tion.